People flee from what they hate or from what causes them harm. Those who have fled Nigeria whether legally or illegally did so to get freedom from One Nigeria. Some others stay in Nigeria but only part-time as that is their way of getting freedom from One Nigeria. In this class of part-time Nigerians, you often find that their spouses and children live more or less permanently abroad, so they make sure that their loved ones escape One Nigeria completely.
Amid the grim era of U.S. slavery, January 1st loomed as ‘Hiring Day’ or ‘Heartbreak Day’ a harrowing time when enslavers would settle debts by trading Black lives.
If they do that to quote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “ If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people a Black people who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
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It's impossible to celebrate a national holiday that marks the emancipation of Black people in 1865, writes academic and author Kellie Carter Jackson, without considering the role of education in freedom, which the GOP continues to attack today.